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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1908, Berlin: A Cabaret - 1923: A Doctor, A Diagnosis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sholem's response when he asks the men what a minyan is?
(a) It is ten Jews who pray together.
(b) It is a yellow creature that helps Gru.
(c) It is no longer necessary.
(d) It is ten Jews in a circle accusing each other of anti-Semitism.

2. In what languages do the actors speak at the beginning of the play?
(a) Spanish and Chinese.
(b) Yiddish and German.
(c) French and German.
(d) Yiddish and English.

3. What was NOT included in the box of materials that Taichman unearthed at the start of the collaboration with Vogel?
(a) The entire trial transcript.
(b) The original copy of The God of Vengeance.
(c) Her thesis.
(d) Letters from the producer Harry Weinberger.

4. Where does Sholem say he will take his stones?
(a) To the gentiles.
(b) Back home.
(c) Outside the tent.
(d) To another tent.

5. What does Yekel do with the Torah scroll instead of throwing it on the ground?
(a) He lights it on fire.
(b) He hugs it to his chest.
(c) He holds it in the air.
(d) He tears it up.

Short Answer Questions

1. The troupe suddenly goes into a rendition of what song about the rich getting rich and the poor being laid off but everyone is having fun anyway?

2. 1908, Berlin: The Deutches Theatre Elsa Heimes and Freida Niemann begins with Freida and Elsa, speaking in German, about the play they will both be in and will be what?

3. What is Sholem's response when Nakhmen says he is representing the Jewish people as prostitutes and pimps?

4. How does Lemml feel about working in the theatre as an assistant to the stage manager?

5. Vogel says she wrote the scenes, and Taichman made them come alive. Which scenes does she specifically mention?

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